ArticleBiological psychology2019
Interpersonal-level discrimination indices, sociodemographic factors, and telomere length in African-Americans and Whites.
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- The associations of socioeconomic status with incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease are modified by leucocyte telomere length: a population-based cohort study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Discrimination and Leukocyte Telomere Length by Depressive Symptomatology: The Jackson Heart Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Diagnosing and Treating Systemic Racism.The New England journal of medicine · 2020Article
- Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Discrimination, social support, and telomere length: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).Annals of epidemiology · 2020Article
- Interactive Relations Across Dimensions of Interpersonal-Level Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms to Carotid Intimal-Medial Thickening in African Americans.Psychosomatic medicineArticle
- Sex and Gender Differences Between Experiences of Discrimination and Physical Health: A Systematic Review.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.)Review
- Do black/white differences in telomere length depend on socioeconomic status?Biodemography and social biologyArticle
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Abstract
objectiveStudies have linked self-reported discrimination to telomere attrition, a biological marker of accelerated cellular aging. However, it is unknown whether intersections between social categories-race, socioeconomic status (SES), sex, and age-influence the association of varying forms of discrimination with telomere length. We examined these associations in a socioeconomically and racially/ethnically diverse urban sample.
methodsCross-sectional data were from 341 middle-aged (30-64 years) African American and White, community participants in the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span Study (HANDLS). Multiple regression models examined up to 3-way interactions between a discrimination measure (i.e., everyday, racial, gender, lifetime burden, and frequency of discrimination across sources) and two social categories.
resultsAfter adjusting for depressive symptoms, waist circumference, and lifetime substance use, two themes emerged: 1) among women with higher SES, a) greater lifetime discrimination burden (b = -0.23, p = .011), gender discrimination (b = -0.29, p = .040), and racial discrimination (b = -0.24, p = 0.023) and 2) among younger adults, irrespective of race and sex, greater frequency of discrimination across sources (b = 0.002, p = .008) was associated with shorter telomeres.
conclusionsIrrespective of race, women with higher SES and younger adults reporting greater discrimination may be at particular risk for accelerated aging. Telomere attrition promotes and accelerates chronic health conditions for which there are health disparities. Future research explicating intersections among specific discrimination indices and social categories is warranted.
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